Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

Life of the Party: Poems by Olivia Gatwood

19 reviews

viacrow's review

challenging dark fast-paced

5.0

olivia manages to encapsulate every fear and desire and insecurity and experience i’ve ever had and turn it into art. this body of work makes me feel safe in a world where i am not 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Death, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Violence, Sexual violence, and Sexism

montanius's review

challenging emotional slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

kzkoni's review

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence

melissa_francesca's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Drug abuse, Addiction, Domestic abuse, and Sexual violence

j4cq's review

challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

started precise and loosened up near the end. the writing was great, beautiful, but the contents of the poems are not for the light hearted. absolutely horrible, made me sick to my stomach. 

please read the trigger warnings

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Murder, Child abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, and Pedophilia

Minor: Stalking

carlygittrich's review

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

5.0

Feminist 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

sammies_shelf's review

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Sexual violence, and Murder

raccoonbirb_'s review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Murder, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, and Violence

jainnyreads's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

1.5

I can see why people love this collection, but I honestly got about a quarter of the way through and hate-read it until the end. The only poem I genuinely enjoyed was “Ode to My Bitch Face,” which is what brought it up that extra .5.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Grief, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Violence